Fishing News and Info
09-10-2005, 00:05

"The devastating hurricane Katrina is graphic evidence of just how disruptive natural disasters can be. Those affected are without electricity, water, stoves, phone and even shelter. To be prepared, collect the following items and store them so that you can find them easily in an emergency-but not so easily that you end up raiding and depleting the supplies without realizing it. Some people store these items in a section of the basement or a closet that is used infrequently. Decide what will work best for you."

"Correction
A map on the front of today's preprinted Arts & Entertainment section mistakenly appears in black and white instead of color. The map above shows the status of buildings on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Sept. 4, 2005
Correction
The East Carolina University football schedule in the Sports section Friday had the wrong time for the Pirates game at Wake Forest University on Sept. 17. The game is at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 3, 2005
Correction
A story in the Aug. 27 edition misstated the Federal Transit Administration's view of Triangle Transit Authority's ridership forecast for a planned light rail system."

"Local president of the National Association of Colored People, the NAACP, Gilder peered out from an angelic face set on top of the full, rounded belly of an ebony Buddha. In his leaner, meaner years, he had shaved his balding skull; now a touch of gray graced his temples. He had earned his place as a moving force in Tampa's political life, becoming both a figure of love and respect, and a target of hate and suspicion.
In the early hours of March 25, 1983, he was sleeping soundly in his modest West Tampa home, when his telephone started ringing. There'd been a shooting on the Interstate, he heard."

"The news follows BearingPoint's award of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) for RFID by the Information Technology, E-Commerce and Commercial Contracting Center, the contracting authority for all Army purchasing. BearingPoint was one of 12 companies awarded BPAs.
Subsystems will provide engineering and technical work for BearingPoint's passive RFID projects as contracts are awarded under the BPA.
Such partnerships indicate that the RFID industry is moving into a new, more mature phase, as vendors broaden their focus to include full integration of RFID with end-users' business systems, according to ABI research analyst Erik Michielsen."

"Anglers the world over have always struggled with that question. I know times when the fish were visible, lots of them, and they would not so much as nibble at even a live bait presented to them. What reason is..."

"Dan Linden read my article, Redfish or Rough Fish and sent this note regarding an experience he had, albeit in freshwater. I think this goes a long way to prove that our fishing preferences - heck our life preferences -..."

"I have a number of cyber and personal fishing friends in New Orleans and Biloxi, most of whom I have not heard from. The devastation they have undergone is not only unbelievable, it is something we will all have to..."

"Over the past several years I have written several pieces regarding commercial fishermen and sport fishermen in Florida and the issues that face both sides. I understand the emotional and rational issues that the commercial people have undergone and that..."

"Recent press accounts of the Asian snakehead fish invading New York City continue to perpetuate the distorted doomsday image earlier media accounts fostered when this story first broke following the discovery of a few Northern Snakehead in a small Maryland..."